The doctor is out. In fact, he’s only an occasional visitor. There are no full-time psychiatrists across jails and borstals (juvenile detention centres) in Maharashtra. Section 103 of the Mental Health Care Act, 2017, requires state governments to set up a mental health establishment in the medical wing of at least one prison in each state, where prisoners can be referred to and cared for. Certainly, such psychiatric wings can be found in Maharashtra’s jails—it’s just that they have no resident doctors, only visiting psychiatrists.